Butterfly visual characteristics and ontogeny of responses to butterflies by a specialized tropical bird

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 37-67

  Chai, Peng ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

butterfly; colour; feeding experiment; flight; jacamar; logistic analysis; morphology; Predator; rainforest; young bird

Indexed keywords

AVES; GALBULA; GALLIFORMES; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; PAPILIONOIDEA;

EID: 0030469884     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/bijl.1996.0053     Document Type: Article

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